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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="10-702" title_number="10" title_name="Mental Health Law" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Rights of Mentally Ill Individuals in Facilities">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to any reasonable limitation that a facility imposes, each individual in the facility shall have access, at all reasonable hours, to writing instruments, stationery, and postage and may use them to write to anyone.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The correspondence of the individual shall be sent to the addressee without delay, and except under the direction of the addressee, without being opened.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each individual in a facility shall have reasonable access to a telephone. However, an individual may not telephone anyone who has given the facility written notice of being unwilling to be telephoned.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If, for medical reasons, an individual’s access to correspondence, writing instruments, or telephones is limited, the limitation shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Signed by a physician and the reasons for the limitation and the date on which the limitation expires made a permanent part of the individual’s record; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Reviewed every 30 days if the limitation remains in effect.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the attending physician believes that, because of the condition of an individual, another individual should be permitted to be present when writing instruments are used, the permission and the reasons for the permission shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Signed by the attending physician;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Dated as to when the permission expires;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Made a permanent part of the individual’s record; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Reviewed every 30 days if the permission remains in effect.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
